FACILITATOR TRAINING PROGRAM SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE

Name:

Date:

Training program year and location:

The purpose of this questionnaire is twofold.  First it is a tool for you to assess where you are in your learning process and to observe how your responses change over time. Second, it is a communication tool between yourself and the trainers, to provide clear feedback, and to ensure that expectations, both yours and the Institute's, for certification (if you choose that course) are clearly communicated.  These questionnaires will be returned to you at the end of the Program if you expressly request them.

To complete the questionnaire, please do not consult books or make this a scholarly project.  This is simply to provide you a set-point on where you are in your learning process at the time you fill it out.  Just sit down and answer the questions to the best of your current ability.  Take the first answers that come to you.  Use the back of the page if you need more room. The questionnaire should take you about a half an hour to fill out.  It is okay to leave questions blank if you do not have an answer at this time.

You will complete this questionnaire two or three times over the course of the Program, depending on which program you are enrolled in.  Many students find it useful to keep a copy of their previous SAQ's on their computer and notice how their answers change over the course of the training.  In this way, you will be able to see the evolution of your understanding of this work.

I. PRINCIPLES

1) Define "conscience" and describe its effects on human systems.

2) What are the effects of "guilt" and "innocence" on an individual with regards to belonging in a system?  With regards to give and take?  With regards to social order?

3) What are four ways of maintaining innocence with regards to give and take, and their effects over time on the individual who uses them?

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4) What are the three Orders of Love as described by Bert Hellinger?

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5) What are the three things that adversely affect the balance of give and take between parents and children?

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6) What creates the systemic bond between a man and a woman in a couple's relationship?

7) Define phenomenological as it applies to Systemic Constellations.

8) Define fate and give an example.

9) Define suffering as it pertains to family systems.  Why is suffering often chosen over resolution?

10) How do you identify when someone is entangled in the fate of another person, whether in a family or other system?

11) What place does helping people have in constellation work?  Why?

12) What is a constellation?  What is it not?

13) What effect do constellations typically have on the person for whom they are set?

14) Who else have you seen facilitate constellations?

15) If you can, identify approximately how many constellations you have seen or participated in.__________

II. CLEANING THE INSTRUMENT OF SELF

1) I identify my family-of-origin as (circle one)  poor - middle class - wealthy.

2) I identify my ethnic background as:

3) What I value about my family of origin and ethnic background is:

4) What I find difficult about my family of origin or ethnic background is:

5) My main way of learning cognitive material is:

6) My main way of learning new skills is:

7) People usually tell me I'm:
(Circle one that most fits, where very approachable=1 and very credible=2)
Very approachable                                                Very credible
1                  2                  3                    4                  5

8) I am completely comfortable talking about my parents...
(Circle one, where true=1 and not true=5)
True                                                                          Not true
1                  2                  3                    4                  5

9) ...brothers and sisters or other relatives... (Circle one)
True                                                                          Not true
1                  2                  3                    4                  5

10) ...previous relationships. (Circle one)
True                                                                          Not true
1                  2                  3                    4                  5

11) Issues I would not be completely comfortable confronting are (and say why you are uncomfortable with this issue):

12) I have a regular form of physical exercise and spiritual or meditation practice that I engage in three or more times a week. (Circle one)
True              Not true

III. PRACTICES

1) I recognize when a person is in a primary feeling state, a secondary feeling state or systemically entangled. (Circle one)
True                                                                        Not true
1                  2                  3                  4                  5

I know this because:______________________________________________

2) I can usually tell as soon as I'm incongruent in a given situation or with a given person or persons. (Circle one)
True                                                                        Not true
1                  2                  3                  4                  5

I know this because:______________________________________________

3) I can usually tell as soon when someone else is incongruent. (Circle one)
True                                                                        Not true
1                  2                  3                  4                  5

I know this because:______________________________________________

4) If I were presented with a person's family history and an issue, I am comfortable that I would know who to set in a constellation. (Circle one)
True                                                                        Not true
1                  2                  3                  4                  5

I know this because:______________________________________________

5) What definitiion of a "group" is most useful to facilitators?

6) I am okay with myself when I make mistakes in front of a group.
True                                                                        Not true
1                  2                  3                    4                5

7) I know this because______________________________________________.

8) I am completely comfortable with leaving an issue unresolved in a group.  (Circle one)
True                                                                        Not true
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I know this because______________________________________________.

9) I can see when a group is formed, or not. (Circle one)
True                                                                        Not true
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I know this because:_____________________________________________

10) I can detect when either a group or individual holds their breath or breathes high. (Circle one)
True                                                                        Not true
1                  2                  3                    4                5

I know this because:_____________________________________________

12) I know how to handle an auditory person in a group when he or she is
inappropriate. (Circle one)
True                                                                        Not true
1                  2                  3                    4                5

I know this because:_____________________________________________

13) I am comfortable that I can assist a person who is in an extreme state to reach a more resourceful state. (Circle one)
True                                                                        Not true
1                  2                  3                    4                5

I know this because:_____________________________________________

14) I know how to create safety in a group and what it takes to be perceived as afair facilitator. (Circle one)
True                                                                        Not true
1                  2                  3                    4                5

I know this because:_____________________________________________

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